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Academic Freedom's Inflection Point, Jerry C. Edwards May 2026

Academic Freedom's Inflection Point, Jerry C. Edwards

Law Faculty Scholarship

Academic freedom faces an existential crisis. The Trump administration, building on a movement that began in the states, is seeking ideological conquest of higher education. Some universities have already surrendered. Others fight on, facing an endless barrage of assaults on their institutional autonomy. Faculty too have chosen to resist, relying on their free expression rights. One of the most potent weapons in higher education’s arsenal is the constitutional academic freedom doctrine, a First Amendment protection that safeguards faculty’s academic expression and universities’ academic judgments. But the Supreme Court’s embrace of history and tradition as a focal point of its individual …


303 Creative For Everyone?, Mark Satta Sep 2025

303 Creative For Everyone?, Mark Satta

West Virginia Law Review

Does the holding in 303 Creative v. Elenis give businesses open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to provide expressive services for interracial couples’ weddings, interfaith couples’ weddings, or for couples’ weddings in which one or both partners are disabled? As indicated by questions raised during oral arguments, this is one of the troubling new legal questions created by the Supreme Court’s 303 Creative decision where the Court held that a Colorado web design business had a First Amendment free speech right to refuse to provide wedding website services for same-sex couples’ weddings. Understandably, both the Court’s conservative …


Reconciling Tenure And Faculty Accountability, Stuart Chinn Sep 2025

Reconciling Tenure And Faculty Accountability, Stuart Chinn

West Virginia Law Review

Part of the very identity of the American university is its insulation from society—a crucial contributor, at least in some instances, toward facilitating the search for knowledge and the disruption of established orthodoxies. Yet American higher education does not exist and cannot function separately from societal pressures. This is most obviously true in the context of public institutions that directly rely on state governmental entities for financial support and that may be subject to some mechanisms of control by governmental actors or their appointees. But it is also obviously true in the context of private institutions that may rely on …


Quiet Encroachments On School Prayer Jurisprudence, Amanda Harmony Cooley Apr 2024

Quiet Encroachments On School Prayer Jurisprudence, Amanda Harmony Cooley

West Virginia Law Review

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The Censorship Constraint And Rulemaker State Action: Are Section 230'S Immunity Provisions Unconstitutional Content-Based Regulations?, Scot A. Reader Mar 2023

The Censorship Constraint And Rulemaker State Action: Are Section 230'S Immunity Provisions Unconstitutional Content-Based Regulations?, Scot A. Reader

West Virginia Law Review

Even casual watchers of T.V. crime dramas understand the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule. Under this rule, evidence obtained by the police in a search of a criminal suspect’s premises that exceeds the scope of a judicial warrant is almost always inadmissible in the suspect’s criminal trial. The rule is designed to deter unreasonable governmental intrusion into private affairs and applies without regard for the suspect’s guilt or innocence. This Article proposes that the First Amendment includes an analogous rule against governmental censorship. Under this rule, content-based speech regulations exceed the legislature’s speech rulemaking warrant and are almost always invalid. This …


Comrades Or Foes: Did The Chinese Break The Law Or New Ground Ground For The First Amendment, Artem M. Joukov Jan 2023

Comrades Or Foes: Did The Chinese Break The Law Or New Ground Ground For The First Amendment, Artem M. Joukov

West Virginia Law Review

Prior to exiting the White House, President Trump placed a variety of restrictions on Chinese-owned social media applications, TikTok and WeChat, threatening to greatly curtail their influence in the United States. While couching his actions in the context of national security, the former president engaged in viewpoint discrimination in plain violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The court rulings in favor of TikTok and WeChat were encouraging and should stem the tide of future government regulations of social media platforms. This article discusses how the decisions fit into the greater context of First Amendment jurisprudence and …


Content, Context, What's Next? A Garcetti-Pickering Analysis For Public Employees In Court, Austin Longnecker Dec 2020

Content, Context, What's Next? A Garcetti-Pickering Analysis For Public Employees In Court, Austin Longnecker

West Virginia Law Review

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When The First And Second Amendments Collide: The Free Speech Implications Of West Virginia's Business Liability Protection Act Of 2018, Alex A. Tsiatsos Apr 2019

When The First And Second Amendments Collide: The Free Speech Implications Of West Virginia's Business Liability Protection Act Of 2018, Alex A. Tsiatsos

West Virginia Law Review

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Will Conservative Justices Sound The Death Knell Of State Action? Be Careful For What You Wish, Anne M. Lofaso Apr 2019

Will Conservative Justices Sound The Death Knell Of State Action? Be Careful For What You Wish, Anne M. Lofaso

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Catholic Institutions In Court: The Religion Clauses And Political-Legal Compromise, Angela C. Carmella Sep 2017

Catholic Institutions In Court: The Religion Clauses And Political-Legal Compromise, Angela C. Carmella

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Professional Speech And The First Amendment, Rodney A. Smolla Sep 2016

Professional Speech And The First Amendment, Rodney A. Smolla

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Prove Yourselves: Oliver Wendell Holmes And The Obsessions Of Manliness, John M. Kang Apr 2016

Prove Yourselves: Oliver Wendell Holmes And The Obsessions Of Manliness, John M. Kang

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Compelled Commercial Speech, Robert Post Apr 2015

Compelled Commercial Speech, Robert Post

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Conservative-Libertarian Turn In First Amendment Jurisprudence, Steven J. Heyman Sep 2014

The Conservative-Libertarian Turn In First Amendment Jurisprudence, Steven J. Heyman

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Aiding The Enemy Or Promoting Democracy? Defining The Rights Of Journalists And Whistleblowers To Disclose National Security Information, Candice M. Kines Dec 2013

Aiding The Enemy Or Promoting Democracy? Defining The Rights Of Journalists And Whistleblowers To Disclose National Security Information, Candice M. Kines

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Re-Establishing Distributor Liability On The Internet: Recognizing The Applicability Of Traditional Defamation Law To Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act Of 1996, William E. Buelow Iii Sep 2013

Re-Establishing Distributor Liability On The Internet: Recognizing The Applicability Of Traditional Defamation Law To Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act Of 1996, William E. Buelow Iii

West Virginia Law Review

Plaintiffs whose reputations have suffered irreparable injury from the distribution of defamatory statements have generally been permitted by law to recover damages from the enterprises that distributed the publications known to contain the defamatory material. However, when the enterprise that knowingly distributed the injurious content is an Internet service provider ("ISP"), present law denies that same plaintiff recovery. This perception of ISP immunity flows from a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Zeran v. America Online, Inc., where the Court extended certain immunities offered by the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (the "CDA"). …


The Mpaa: A Script For An Antitrust Production, Ian G. Henry Sep 2013

The Mpaa: A Script For An Antitrust Production, Ian G. Henry

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Talking Chalk: Defacing The First Amendmen In The Public Forum, Marie A. Failinger Dec 2012

Talking Chalk: Defacing The First Amendmen In The Public Forum, Marie A. Failinger

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Tinker And Viewpoint Discrimination, John E. Taylor Apr 2009

Tinker And Viewpoint Discrimination, John E. Taylor

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Reflections On The Mirror Image Doctrine: Should The Federal Trade Commission Regulate False Advertising For Books Promising Wealth, Weight Loss, And Miraculous Cures?, Keith R. Fentonmiller Jan 2008

Reflections On The Mirror Image Doctrine: Should The Federal Trade Commission Regulate False Advertising For Books Promising Wealth, Weight Loss, And Miraculous Cures?, Keith R. Fentonmiller

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Balancing Public School Students' First Amendment Freedoms With The Blackboard Jungle: Are Students In Danger Of Becoming Another Brick In The Wall After Hazelwood?, Daniel Lattanzi Jan 2008

Balancing Public School Students' First Amendment Freedoms With The Blackboard Jungle: Are Students In Danger Of Becoming Another Brick In The Wall After Hazelwood?, Daniel Lattanzi

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reconciling The Irreconcilable: Military Chaplains And The First Amendment, Steven K. Green Sep 2007

Reconciling The Irreconcilable: Military Chaplains And The First Amendment, Steven K. Green

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Public School Students' Religious Speech And Viewpoint Discrimination, Kristi L. Bowman Sep 2007

Public School Students' Religious Speech And Viewpoint Discrimination, Kristi L. Bowman

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why Student Religious Speech Is Speech, John E. Taylor Sep 2007

Why Student Religious Speech Is Speech, John E. Taylor

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Establishment Clause And Religious Expression In Government Settings: Four Variables In Search Of A Standard, Daniel O. Conkle Sep 2007

The Establishment Clause And Religious Expression In Government Settings: Four Variables In Search Of A Standard, Daniel O. Conkle

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Establishment Clause Limits On Free Exercise Accommodations, Kent Greenawalt Sep 2007

Establishment Clause Limits On Free Exercise Accommodations, Kent Greenawalt

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


When Accommodations For Religion Violoate The Establishment Clause: Regularizing The Supreme Court's Analysis, Carl H. Esbeck Sep 2007

When Accommodations For Religion Violoate The Establishment Clause: Regularizing The Supreme Court's Analysis, Carl H. Esbeck

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Religious Exemptions And The Common Good: A Reply To Professor Carmella, Laura S. Underkuffler Sep 2007

Religious Exemptions And The Common Good: A Reply To Professor Carmella, Laura S. Underkuffler

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Responsible Freedom Under The Religion Clauses: Exemptions, Legal Pluralism, And The Common Good, Angela C. Carmella Sep 2007

Responsible Freedom Under The Religion Clauses: Exemptions, Legal Pluralism, And The Common Good, Angela C. Carmella

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Uncivil Religion: Judeo-Christianity And The Ten Commandments, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Roger Hendrix Sep 2007

Uncivil Religion: Judeo-Christianity And The Ten Commandments, Frederick Mark Gedicks, Roger Hendrix

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.